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Man raising awareness for organ donation stumbles on UNMC

During his cross-country trek, Don Erickson discovered UNMC’s Lied Transplant Center — by accident.

Oct 24, 2013

Rubin Quiros, M.D., (left) and Alan Langnas, D.O. (right), met with Don Erickson.

Farm Safety Clinical Day offers important lessons

The event’s goal is to reduce farm injuries through awareness.

Oct 22, 2013

Kearney third semester nursing student Tim Mason, center, shakes hand with a central Nebraska farmer following his health assessment. Watching and learning are first semester students Sydnee Kiesel, Madison Felker and Kathryn Reese. In the background are student Nicole Eisenach and instructor Cindy Ference.

Pharmacy students’ rotation spins them half a world away

UNMC students among the few from the the United States to complete pharmacy rotations in China.

Oct 21, 2013

From left, Lingli Zhang, M.D., chief pharmacist and director of pharmacy at West China Second University Hospital and adjunct professor of pharmacy practice at UNMC, P4 students Mike Dibble and Casey Koch, and Keith Olsen, Pharm.D., chair of pharmacy practice, pose proudly with Dibble and Koch in their new white coats in Chengdu, China. Dibble and Koch are the first UNMC students to have completed pharmacy rotations in China.

Interim University of Nebraska provost pays UNMC a visit

Susan Fritz, Ph.D., gets first looks at Biobank, Biologics Production Facility and Truhlsen Eye Institute.

Oct 21, 2013

Dele Davies, M.D., Susan Fritz, Ph.D., and Diana Do, M.D., during Dr. Fritz's visit to the UNMC campus.

UNMC, Omaha VA researchers to examine if vitamin D prevents diabetes

Does vitamin D help prevent or delay type 2 diabetes?

Oct 21, 2013

Dr. Wang’s research offers hope for family with history of cancer

“Now that I know I have this gene, I can do something about it.”

Oct 17, 2013

San Ming Wang. M.D.

New research challenges views on causes of familial breast cancer

UNMC/Creighton collaboration challenges current approaches to identifying breast cancer in families with a genetic link.

Oct 16, 2013

From left, the UNMC research team includes Pei Xian Chen, M.D., Yeong Kim, Ph.D.,Bradley Downs, Fengxia Xiao, M.D., and San Ming Wang, M.D.

UNMC, Creighton research challenges views on familial breast cancer

Find challenges current approaches in identifying breast cancer in families.

Oct 16, 2013

Video: Most women don’t carry breast/ovarian cancer gene

Even with a family history of breast cancer, odds are patient won’t carry the BRCA gene mutation.

Oct 14, 2013

Edibaldo Silva, M.D., Ph.D.
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